Only time I spent that much on textbooks is when I was a young naive freshman. Now-a-days, I try my best to find the cheapest books online. This semester I asked my professors if it was okay to get the one edition older than the current one and they were fine with that. It ended up saving me $200 .
Unless I know for a fact that assignments, HW, case studies, will be taken directly from the text I don't buy books anymore. 2nd year MBA student and out of 18 classes I bought books for 5. I just bought an Information Systems Mgmt. book $185!!!!! Damn professor assigned case studies from the test.
Service fees on tickets for concerts Food at sports games and concerts Food at movie theaters Movie tickets Apple iPad Most video games Tickets for certain concerts (I'm looking at you, Gorillaz)/Pit tickets at ampitheaters VIP passes for most music festivals Yeah this is just what games to mind right now
THat, this and THAT! Now that I shave my head bald, even though I have a full head of hair (suck it old people) I'm going through these quick. The new Pro Glide is dope, but it only last two-three shaves then it's dead.
As far as movie theaters go, I understand that the food is overpriced, but I believe that is the only way that they can turn profits and stay in business. I'm fairly sure that the theaters actually make very little money on the actual movies themselves (movie tickets) and most of their revenue is generated off concessions. The movie ticket revenue almost completely goes to the studios. On the printer ink, the margins are expensive over the marginal cost, but there is actually a huge sunk cost into the research and development of those cartridges. The tech on ink jets is actually quite impressive.
The truth is that most everything is a rip off. I can't think of anything I'd call a good value except the net.
Gotta go with the College textbooks, the prices are unbelievably expensive, and what really piss you off is that they change textbooks edition every year to make it impossible for you to sell them back.
I dropped a class this semester because of the textbook BS. Like I said above, I usually find my textbooks for much cheaper, however for this particular class the textbook is also used for lab and you have to tear out the pages in order to do assignments. This makes textbook worthless at the end of the semester. I think it cost like $150 or something like that. That is evil. Thank goodness I was able to take another class in place of this one.
You must not read Craigslist at 2am on Friday nights. I've found good value there. Got ripped, but not off. I mean, yeah, OFF, but not like.. I have to go. Edit- Did I post that out loud?
My wife spends $100/month at Starbucks. That's over 1K a year on sub-par coffee! I actually like the cappuccino machine at those On The Run gas stations better. And it's $3 cheaper. Another one is draft beer at restaurants. It really should be cheaper than bottles. They spend $35 on a keg and sell each cup for $3 to $5. Talk about a fat mark up....
Happy Hour is a beautiful thing. I keep an Excel spreadsheet with all the restaurants around our house and the corresponding HH days/times. Is that wrong?
Monster Cables. How they built a business on selling $4 cables for $50 is beyond me. I guess the art of the retail sell is not quite dead yet.
We got a Kuerig coffee maker, and it is amazing....I have Peppermint Mocha every morning for around $.80....instead of $4.00 DD
